SGA fic: Breaking Up in Three Easy Clichés (+ challenge)

[xparrot]

Firstly - McShep HappyFic Challenge! I've been waiting for something like this to pop up, since we all need it now. Since I not-so-secretly love unmitigated and absurdly happy endings even more than I love angst, I am all over this one (...whether or not I'll be able to write something for it is another matter, but we'll see...) It's very open-ended, so go! Sign up! Be happy!


Then, changing gears so fast that I apologize for the whiplash, a new fic:

This is...okay, I don't like the McKay/Keller pairing. My reasons range from my fairly levelheaded disinterest in seeing any romance in the show, to the increasingly emotional and irrational. But I don't want to take out that dislike on Keller, not when we have so little show left to enjoy; I don't especially like the char as she's been written anyway, but I'm trying. So really, this is less an actual fic and more me working to come to terms with the pairing, such as it is. Such as I see it, so I can move on and see Jennifer in her own right. Any McKeller OTPers will probably want to give this one a pass, for your own good.

(And next I will return you to your regularly scheduled Rodney/TEAM/McShep squee, before gnine has my head for straying!)

SGA: Breaking Up in Three Easy Clichés {~3,300 words}
PG, McKay/Keller, spoilers for "The Last Man" and "The Shrine"

Read it on AO3

Comments

[facetofcathy.livejournal.com]

Now if TPTB want to write Jennifer/Rodney like this, well I'm in. Yes, I can see them dating, yes I can see her liking Rodney at first and yes I can see him liking her (not a spontaneous declaration of love, I mean really).

But..... It cannot last.

The story though, I love the way you twist those three cliches. I love the way she's got some anger that she doesn't quite know where to put. I love the way she's genuinely resentful of Rodney usurping her biggest brain in the room status and genuinely contrite for feeling it.

Great story, and I say that not just because I agree with your premis.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I didn't mind the spontaneous declaration of love - but only because I saw like this, as Rodney confused and wanting to love someone, and Keller is there, and he was hoping, so he said it. I don't think it means that much, really (oddly, the way it played in the episode itself, I wasn't sure if we were meant to think it a grand declaration, or if we were actually supposed to question its truth. Considering he didn't even seem to remember Keller's name later...)

...but then I sort of liked Katie Brown/Rodney, too, only because I was sure it was destined to fail. I have this weird thing for the relationships that fail not out of any sort of malice or mistake, but simply because two people can't always make it work, even when they want to.

And heck, I love Rodney McKay, but he wouldn't be an easy guy to date. I'd have problems with being jealous of his genius myself...!